MongoDB goes down due to small paging file size

[Vishesh Singhal]

Hi,

We are using MongoDB version 2.4.9 and one of our cluster server is having issues with the MongoDB service as it goes down suddenly and found below error as:

[repl writer worker 5] VirtualProtect for E:/MongoDB/data/db/test.78 chunk 15268 failed with errno:1455 The paging file is too small for this operation to complete. (chunk size is 67108864, address is ee90000000) in mongo::makeChunkWritable, terminating


Environment: Windows Server 2012 Standard (64-bit Operating System)
RAM: 32GB
PageFile Size: 4GB


Can you please confirm me what should be the pagefile size for mongoDB operations.

Regards,
Vishesh

[Stephen Steneker]

Hi Vishesh,

What's the total size of your dbpath? It's likely you need a larger page file size to accommodate your deployment:
 http://docs.mongodb.org/master/administration/production-notes/#configure-windows-page-file-for-mmapv1

As mentioned in the production notes, the recommendation is for a fixed page file size of at least 32GB with identical minimum and maximum sizes (since dynamic page sizing is too slow for an active deployment).

I would also recommend upgrading from 2.4.9 to the latest 2.4.x production release (currently 2.4.14) as there have been a number of important stability & security fixes:
 http://docs.mongodb.org/master/release-notes/2.4/

Regards,

Stephen